Biophysical Newsletter - January 2014

Newsletter january 2014

Deadlines

58 th Annual Meeting

Seven speakers were selected for the 2014 New & Notable Symposium from among nearly 120 submissions. The speakers, listed below, will present their work in San Francisco during the Symposium on Sunday, February 16, at 10:45 am. 2014 New & Notable Symposium

February 15 – 19, 2014 San Francisco, California January 13, 2014 Undergraduate Poster Fest Pre-Registration January 17, 2014 Childcare Pre-Registration Blogger Applications

Basuthkar Rao , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Chromosome Territories Spatially Reorganise during DNA-Damage Response in Mammalian Nuclei Blake Wiedenheft , Montana State University Structure of the CRISPR RNA- guided Surveillance Complex

Erhu Cao , University of California, San Francisco Structural Insights into TRP Channel Activation Elizabeth Chen , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Myosin II Functions as a Direct Mechanosensor for Intercellular Invasion during Cell-Cell Fusion Anne Kenworthy , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Sterol Binding Controls Partitioning of the Amyloid Precursor C99 Protein between Ordered and Disordered Membranes Suliana Manley , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland High Throughput 3D PALM Imaging Elucidates Mechanisms of Bacterial Cell Division

January 26, 2014 Hotel Room Block Reservation

Summer Course in Biophysics May 13–July 31, 2014 Chapel Hill, North Carolina

from the Adaptive Immune System in Escherichia coli Hao Wu , Harvard Medical School Elucidation of Filamentous Structures in Immune Signaling

February 15, 2014 Priority Application Submission

Robert Nakamoto , the chair of the New & Notable Symposium explains that, "The speakers of this year's New and Notable symposium will present exciting new results that were obtained using a range of biophysical approaches to address very challenging questions. I find it stunning how investigators continue to develop methods to study increasingly complex systems at very high resolution."

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